I may not be wealthy; I'm living from pay check to pay check, but I get to make movies, which is what I love to do.

I still fall asleep with the TV on, because I'm used to falling asleep with people yelling 'Action!' and 'Cut!

The planet is always half light and half dark, and so are we.

I'm a huge fan of Akira Kurosawa, a big Hitchcock fan.

My life is perfectly happy and giggly and I'm perfectly grateful every day; if there are problems to have, the ones I have are the ones to have; I'm lucky.

('Eraserhead') may seem like a dark film, but my father and I watch it, and all we do is laugh. It was Disneyland everyday on the set. That's when I fell in love with film.

I love how a story can help someone discuss something they otherwise would not.